The Pure Ocarinas Community
Welcome to the Pure Ocarinas Community! We are a welcoming group of ocarina enthusiasts, who share a passion for the ocarina as a serious performance instrument.
Our goal is to be a vibrant online ocarina community, where you can build meaningful friendships with fellow players and dive into engaging discussions. We welcome musicians of all levels—from beginners eager to master the basics to advanced players.
Our community lives in two spaces:
A discord server for lively, real-time chat.
A traditional forum for long-lasting conversations.
We are always excited to welcome new members, so feel free to join us on either platform.
Community Goals
Be a space to discuss ocarinas as musical instruments
Discuss things like the pros and cons of different kinds of ocarina, how different ocarinas sound, the effects of steep vs shallow breath curves, the best tuned fingerings for an ocarina, and alternative fingerings which make playing easer.
Promote deep and thoughtful discussions
Our community focuses on thoughtful discussions and being a friendly, supportive environment. Both Discord and traditional forums are excellent platforms for this, and allow you to get to know people and build friendships.
Online conversations in recent times have been dominated by social media platforms that prioritise 'yelling into the void', with short and reactive interactions. Engagement cycles are determined by algorithmic 'force feeding', and designed to be addictive. What you see is out of your control, and conversation topics get buried in days or even hours.
I feel that we are ripe for a return to smaller and more focused online communities, on platforms that prioritise user choice and intelligent conversations.
Allow you to discuss and discover new ocarina music
Find new music to play, including where to find arrangements of modern music, classical ocarina repertoire, and folk music.
Research and discuss ocarina history
Ocarinas had notable popularity in the early 20th century, with record that the Fred. Gretsch Co. was selling 250,000 to 300,000 a year around 1943. However, somehow the instrument almost fully died out by the end of the century.
The ocarina had a life which is little known today. Some of our community members are interested in discovering more, from finding early recordings, to repertoire, method books, and stories. Your contributions would be most welcome if you happen to know anything. Or just come and discover what we have already found.